One thing I am constantly struggling to achieve is a definitive art space for the kids at home. Also what are the basic supplies one needs? If you have the same questions, don’t fear the Camp Creek Blog is here. Check out the right hand side links for ART LESSONS and also posts under CARD CATALOG ->in the studio. That was the basic I started off with.

That pretty much summarizes all that is in my mind. Now I am throwing the subject of art appreciation open to you all.

On the subject of appreciating your child’s art, what do you do when you child shows you her art? Do you say good job? Do you define what she has created? Do you say, “Oh is that a butterfly?” In that case are you prepared to meet an answer like, “No it is you amma. I drew you.” Do you ask her to define her own work and in the process tell her that what she creates must be something that fits in to definition? What do you all do as parents?

Another thing I am trying to get a grasp of is how to store all the art they churn out. On an average day there are atleast 5 papers per child. On top of this there is their usual academic work from school. What do you all do?

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I ask her to explain what she has drawn. lesson learnt after saying the wrong things and hurting Her Highness’ feelings! 😉 and then i say “wow, good job, etc.. etc…” sometimes genuine and sometimes faked. i also tell her what the art looks like to me. in a while though, i can find a pattern and get good at recognizing her art work from a bunch of drawings and also able to guess correctly what she has done. it makes me immensely proud!

if the art itself or her explanation looks good to me, i keep it. otherwise it goes straight to the bin. (of course when she is nt looking! 😉 i keep her drawings, painting, crafts,… filed in a folder.

ps.
*standing ovation* fantastic series of posts. one of your best!

UTBT SAYS: Isn’t it amazing how much we learn after we become mothers?! Congrats on keeping the art accumulation in control.

i am usually honest – only if i really think its great i say it. mainly because she sees through when i try to fake – guess i’m rather bad at it

i take pix of the artwork, display it on the ‘art space’ in their room and then chuck it off unless its phenomenal in which case it goes into their art folder.
UTBT SAYS: Chox, honestly is the best policy I must start using restraint when it comes to saving their art work. I save most of the things because, I am trying to find patterns and how things evolved etc. But the clutter is getting out of hand. Surely these girls are not going to appreciate me handing over them 21 card boxes filled with art work, one for each year, on their 21st birthday

I know how it is! I have (too sentimental!) kept every bit of art A (my 8yr old girl) has produced. At last count the collection was threatning to overflow 2 max size suitcases. Should take a page from B o o.’s book and pare it down. Of course without a word to her. That feels a bit sly, but it has to be done.
UTBT SAYS: Sandhya, Two suitcases huh?! Gulp. Need to get in to art work, need to, need to, need to. Sort that pile, sort sort, sort. But I don’t feel like throwing anything away. What do I do?!

Want to hear my night mare? I have everything, but it is organized in an order that pleases me. Last summer I come back from groceries, as per the kids request the MIL had given them their art folder. And the kids had decorated the house for me. ;( The min the scene registered, I dropped the grocery bag. Casualty a dozen eggs.